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The Impact of Goodheart's Law on Academic Publishing

Goodhart's law deals with the fact that once you institute a measure, it stops being useful because everybody games it. So this has just caused people to become obsessed with publishing papers in order to make themselves look good. The impact I think on academia has been terrible because it's on a metric and Goodheart's law has totally, totally destroyed it.

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